You guys! If you ever have a chance to quit your job, move, and go on vacation at the same time, DO IT. I'm drunk on freedom. And scotch. But mostly freedom.

OMG I just got back from my last Jeet Kune Do class IT WAS AWESOME ( Read more... )

well, fuck, i never thought it was really gonna happen, but it's all over cnn and the bbc and oh god the smell and i think i even saw one. don't worry, she shambled off down the street after somebody, no sign of her for a couple hours ( Read more... )

( What L5R Clan are you? )

I can't decide if this AMV is horrible or unbelievably awesome.

Former professor of mine at Cornell this weekend: "Well, here's what you can do for getting into grad school - go find some professor at the University of Chicago who's really well-known in their field, and ask to audit a class. Then you can be really impressive, and they'll put in a good word for you with graduate programs."

That is a genius ( Read more... )

Sent in another article to the newspaper today. Same editor, and I didn't even have to hound him this time, he sent me the assignment all on his own ( Read more... )

"Do you know what a Humanist is? I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that functionless capacity. We Humanists try to behave well without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which ( Read more... )

Things I Have Overheard In The Coffee Shop Where I Work That Would Make Good Writing Prompts, If You’re Into That Sort Of Thing:

“So I said, you’re either my wife, or you’re not ( Read more... )

"It's time to put the irate back in pirate, people!"